THE ORDINARY OR OUTER PRELIMINARIES and lower Lhodrak, which brought him twenty-one measures of barley He used fourteen of them to buy a four-handled copper pot Placing six measures in a sack, he went back to offer that and the pot to Marpa When he set the barley down, it made the room shake Marpa got up "You're a strong little monk, aren't you?" he said "Are you trying to kill us all by making the house fall down with your bare hands? Get that sack of barley out of here!" He gave the sack a kick, and Mila had to take it outside Later on he gave Marpa the empty pot 104 One day Marpa said to him: "The men ofYamdrok T aklung and Lingpa are attacking many of my faithful disciples who come to visit me from U and Tsang, and stealing their provisions and offerings Bring hailstorms down on them! Since that is a kind of Dharma too, I will give you the instructions afterwards." Mila caused devastating hailstorms to fall on both these regions and then went to ask for the teachings ''You think I'm going to give you the teachings I brought back from India at such great cost in exchange for three or four hailstones? If you really want the Dharma, cast a spell on the hill-folk of Lhodrak They attack my disciples from Nyaloro and are always treating me with downright contempt When there is a sign that your spell has worked, I shall give you Naropa's oral instructions, which lead to Buddhahood in a single lifetime and body." When the signs of the success of the evil spell appeared, Mila asked for the Dharma "Huh! Is it perhaps to pay honour to your accumulation of evil deeds that you are claiming to want these oral instructions that I had to search for, never considering the risk to my own body and life-these instructions still warm with the breath of the